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Though you make valid points, the scale of a typical Github wiki is nowhere near the scale of Wikipedia.
by amackera 16y ago
Though you make valid points, the scale of a typical Github wiki is nowhere near the scale of Wikipedia.
- _delirium 16y agoYeah, and the biggest edit bottleneck---git's serialization of updates---is probably not an issue either, since it only applies to wikis with a lot of pages that get a lot of edits. (By serialization of updates, I mean that, afaik, git can't apply two patches simultaneously, even if they're to completely disjoint sets of files; it has to apply one patch, then the other. That'd be like using a db that requires you to lock the whole db to do any writes. High-volume wikis instead will only lock the rows for the particular page they're editing, so edits to other pages can happen simultaneously without blocking.)